Every year for the past four years I've kept a list of all the movies I've watched during that year. It all started because a friend mentioned he did it, so I had jump on that bandwagon, of course. In 2013, I watched 150 movies. (2012's list also had 150, 2011's list had 175; 2010's list had 331 -- let's not even talk about that).
There's no big revelation about me in these lists, except probably that I watch too many movies.
If a movie is on the list more than once, that's because I watched it more than once during 2013. Unlike some of my movie buff friends (you know who you are) I did not consider watching a double episode of a television show, or an hour-long comedy special, a movie.
(Although I almost considered listing the BBC Sherlock episodes as movies, since those are each 1.5 hours long, but decided against it. Television is not movies. But just FYI -- WATCH THOSE if you haven't. They are fabulous)
* denotes that I was seeing it for the first time
# denotes that it was part of the Sunday Showdown Challenge
Movies that are highlighted are ones I most enjoyed and would most recommend. My top three recommendations from what I saw in 2013 would be: The Intouchables, All About Eve and Safety Not Guaranteed. Although seriously, you can't go wrong with any of the ones that were highlighted.
And yes, I am keeping a list for 2014. Right now it has a big, fat NOTHING on it. But it will have The Way, Way Back, as soon as I can find the time.
2013 Movie List
1 Taxi
Driver*#
2 Man on a
Ledge*
3 Ted*
4 Safety Not Guaranteed*
5 Pitch
Perfect*
6 Spirited
Away*#
7 The
Maltese Falcon#
8 Beasts of
the Southern Wild*
9 On the
Waterfront*#
10 Life of
Pi*
11 Lincoln*
12 Zero Dark
Thirty*
13 Silver
Linings Playbook*
14 Beasts of
the Southern Wild*
15 Django
Unchained*
16 Les
Miserables*
17 Argo*
18 A Good
Day to Die Hard*
19 Burning
Man: Beyond Black Rock*
20 Lawrence
of Arabia#*
21 Rear
Window#
22 WALL-E*#
23 The
Shining#
24 The Intouchables*
25 A
Streetcar Named Desire#
26 Premium
Rush*
27 Alien*
28 The Perks
of Being a Wallflower*
29 The Mummy
30 The
Bourne Legacy
31 8 Years
of Burning Man*
32 It Happened One Night*#
33 Ruby Sparks*
34 Step Up:
Revolution*
35 Confessions
of a Burning Man*
36 Trouble
with the Curve*
37 Amelie#
38 To Rome
With Love*
39 The Journey of Natty Gann
40 Sherlock
Holmes: A Game of Shadows
41 This
Means War
42 GI Joe:
The Rise of Cobra
43 GI Joe:
Retaliation*
44 21 Jump
Street*
45 Vertigo#
46 Iron Man
3*
47 The
Philadelphia Story#
48 Looper*
49 Taken 2*
50 Bonnie
and Clyde*#
51 Step Up*
52 2 Fast 2
Furious
53 Fast and
Furious
54 King
Kong#
55 Oblivion*
56 American
Beauty#
57 American
History X*#
58 Apocalypse
Now*#
59 Fast Five
60 The Fast
and the Furious 6*
61 Star Trek
Into Darkness*
62 Argo
63 Fast and
Furious: Tokyo Drift
64 The Best
Years Of Our Lives*#
65 Chasing
Mavericks*
66 Citizen
Kane#
67 Pitch
Perfect
68 Annie Hall#*
69 Leon: The
Professional#
70 Mao’s
Last Dancer*
71 Snow
White and the Seven Dwarves#
72 Source
Code
73 Iron Man
3
74 The Great
Gatsby*
75 Star Trek
Into Darkness
76 The Mummy
77 The Mummy
Returns
78 The Sound
of Music#
79 Hot Fuzz
80 Oz The
Great and Powerful*
81 One Flew
Over the Cuckoo’s Nest#
82 The
Godfather#
83 Sunset
Boulevard*#
84 The
Godfather Part II #
85 Sex and
the City The Movie
86 GI:Joe
–Retaliation
87 It’s a
Wonderful Life#
88 Matrix
89 Matrix
Reloaded
90 Matrix
Revolutions
91 Se7en#
92 High
Noon*#
93 Star Trek
Into Darkness
94 Thor
95 Sex &
the City 2
96 All About Eve#
97 Elysium*
98 Mr. &
Mrs. Smith
99 Mr. Smith
Goes to Washington#
100 Eraser
101 Now You
See Me*
102 E.T.:
The Extra Terrestrial#
103
Limitless
104 Toy
Story 3*#
105 Déjà vu
106 The
Bodyguard
107 Mud*
108 The
Graduate#
109 Monsters
University*
110 Seven
Samurai#*
111 The
General#*
112 The
Good, the Bad, and the Ugly#*
113
Casablanca#
114 Heathers
115 The
Heat*
116 2001: A
Space Odyssey#
117
Goodfellas#
118 Percy Jackson:
Sea of Monsters*
119
Frequency
120 Love
Potion #9
121 Cloud
Atlas*
122 Here
Comes the Boom*
123 Much Ado
About Nothing*
124 Star
Wars#
125 Psycho#
126 The
Empire Strikes Back#
127 A Good
Day to Die Hard
128 Romeo +
Juliet
129 Pacific
Rim*
130 Rock of
Ages
131 Gone
with the Wind#
132
Inception#
133 The
Kings of Summer*
134. World
War Z*
135 Thor 2*
136 Jack
Reacher
137 World
War Z
138 The
Internship*
139 Skyfall
140 Man of
Steel*
141 Men in
Black 3
142 White
House Down*
143 Singin’
In the Rain#
144 Secretary
145 Moneyball
146 Top Gun
147 Red
148 Red 2*
149 Chicago
Hello Janie, Thank you so much for your movie list. To my mind, I would add The Big Short. By the way, if you want to create and share movies lists with friends, I would consider RowShare, a new online tool to create collaborative tables. RowShare will allows you to insert all the movies you have already seen or you would like to watch. By the way, each person can edit the list simultaneously, really cool! Just give it a try, it could be useful for you!
ReplyDeleteI feel I need to let you know that I am on the team that develops RowShare. I just wrote an article that gives you an idea of how it can help you to organize your movie and how to share your list:
https://www.rowshare.com/blog/en/2016/08/25/How-About-Making-A-List-Of-Your-Favorite-Movies